For two decades the Lord's Resistance Army has inflicted terror across northern Uganda raiding villages, abducting some 60,000 and displacing 1.8 million of the population. Today the group's leader, Joseph Kony and most of the LRA are based in the Congo and their raids are mainly in Republic of South Sudan, North-East Congo and the Central African Republic. As such, the Ugandan People's Defense Forces (UDPF) numbers have dwindled as Uganda no longer sees the LRA as a significant threat to the country. However this belief is not shared by others with Commander General Carter F. Ham of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), recently stating that there is “a lot of work yet to do.”

Today the situation is more stable. Whilst the Juba Peace Process has stalled after Kony refused to sign it, most formerly living in camps have returned home, despite ongoing concerns about the fragility of the emerging peace. The influx of child night commuters has also dwindled from the tens of thousands to merely hundreds, and for most of those still commuting each night, its less fleeing the fear of violence and abduction and more due to overcrowding at home where the night shelters can provide better facilities. Nevertheless the LRA, which depends on abducting children to swells its ranks, remains a force and, as the UDPF winds down its operations in the north, there are ongoing fears that the LRA will regroup and become more combatative in North Uganda claiming the lives of more children and starting a new flood of night commuters. This short video documentary explores this issue of night commuters in Uganda in further detail.